Justin Marsh, MBA, CMA

Justin Marsh has 15 years of consulting experience handling accounting and damages related issues, particularly as it relates to commercial contracts and construction.

He has developed and analyzed numerous construction damages claims for both owners and contractors in mediation, arbitration, and trials.

Justin has assisted counsel and clients on both litigation and non-litigation matters in many industries, including: construction, transportation, public works, residential and commercial developments, and healthcare.

He has developed and analyzed claims for damages, including increased direct and indirect project costs, breaches and terminations of contracts, delays, lost productivity, acceleration costs, cost categorization review, job site and home office overhead, and cost variance analysis.

Selected Project Experience

Led a team of contractors and consultants to prepare $1.3 billion change proposal for a contractor providing logistical support to military bases in Afghanistan. Work included validating the contractor’s original estimate and identifying expanded government-directed scope to justify the increased contractor expense.

Advised Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise in a contract management role to work with client personnel to understand the status of the contract with the contractor responsible for the implementation of a new statewide toll collection system. Worked with the project’s management team to develop a negotiation strategy in order to remove some of the contractor’s scope from the project.

Worked on team to defend a $100 million damages claim related to the construction and design defects on a high-end, luxury life care facility in south Florida. Created model assessing the direct cost of repairing and/or remediating the defects, the cost of caring for the elderly residents during the repairs, lost maintenance fees due to concessions and lower occupancy, and lost revenues due to lost sales of life care contracts.

Engaged by the owner of a bio-mass plant in Hawaii to develop and price over 20 claims totaling over $20 million against the general contractor and answer $20 million in counter-claims from the general contractor. Work included detailed comparison of additional scope of contractor hired by the owner to the scope performed by the original contractor.Engaged by the designer of a 15 billion gallon water reservoir in Tampa, Florida, to respond to the owner’s claim for over $150 million in damages sustained due to unusual cracking in the lining of the facility. Work included analysis of alternative remediation methods as well as financial analysis of claimed lost profits.

Assisted in the development of a $250 million global impact claim for cost overruns incurred by a multinational nuclear energy business in the cleanup of nuclear waste from buildings.